FOOTBALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 17 August 1908, Page 4

FOOTBALL.

THE BRITISHERS IN AUSTRALIA*

INTERESTING GAME AT SYDNISY.

VIEWED BY 35,000 SPECTATORS.

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SYDNEY, August IS. - The British Rugby football team met ' the Metropolitan representatives today in fine weather.- and on a good ground. The attendance was about 35,000, and a fast and interesting game was witnessed. The scores were^ — Britain , 16 Metropolitan 13 AUCKLAND v. WELLINGTON. AUCKLAND, August 16. The Auckland-Wellington Rugby football interprovincial match for the , Ranfurly Shield was played here in the presence of about 12,000 people. Auckland won a most sensational game by 24 to 3. Up to the last quarter of an hour the game was either team's, and I then Wellington suddenly , collapsed, and Auckland put on nineteen points in 15 minutes. Auckland >.t 24 Wellington '. w 3 . , OTHER MATCHES. NAPIER, August 16. The Hawke's Bay Rugby football team defeated Horowhenua by 36 points to nil. . WELLINGTON, Augußt 16. St. Patrick's College beat Wellihgtott ' College by 9 'to 6. The match between Canterbury and Victoria Colleges ended in a. T?in ; for the former by 16 to 9. , t PALMERSTON N., August 16. : Te Aute College defbated^Wanganui College by 21 points to 8. . '•"•• NAPIER, Aiigtist 16. The Ttikapa football club's junior team from New Plymouth defeated Kia Ora juniors this afternoon by 6 points < to 3.